Abstract:
Livestock manure is major source of organic fertilizer component in Ethiopia. However, the
utilization of manure for soil fertility management was too low compared to the number of
livestock they owned. Whereas the price of inorganic fertilizer has increased with time,
agricultural productivity decreased leading to food insecurity. Therefore, the main objective of
this study was assessing a factor that determines the use of livestock manure for soil fertility
management in Boreda woreda of Gamo zone. In order to attain this study, 140 representative
households selected using systematic linear sampling technique. Both primary and secondary
data was collected through household survey, focus group discussion and field observation.
Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to identify determinants and data analyzed by
using SPSS version 26. The finding indicated that age of household head, farm distance from
home, educational background of farmers and ecology farmers the settled were significantly
influenced the utilization of livestock manure for soil fertility management. But the sex of
household, number of livestock, number of active family size and farm size were insignificantly
influence utilization of livestock manure. It concluded that manure utilization for soil fertility
management was poor in study area. Therefore, it can be recommended that government and
non-governmental organizations should give high attention to improve farmers’ practices of
livestock manure utilization.
